Seneca the Younger (Seneca) Quotes

Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

Seneca the Younger

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• I'm as radical as libertarians come.

  

  L. Neil Smith
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• The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'

  

  Katee Sackhoff
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• All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.

  

  J. B. Smoove
  • Life
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• I'm under five feet; I'm very small, 4'11 1/2.

  

  Jacki Weaver
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• My style of music is the great American songbook meets the pop world of the Seventies and Eighties.

  

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• There's so much emphasis on Daniel Day-Lewis and his process, which is appropriately his own. But I was just blown away by his generosity as an actor. He's so giving as an actor that he just naturally commands the focus on set.

  

  Adam Driver
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• I always believe that every one of us is working hard not only for our own performance but also to give something significant back to the societies we live in.

  

  Yani Tseng
  • Believe
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• I think the hip-hop purists are purists through and through. They're here to criticize all of us. That's just how it is. We as MC's criticize each other. That's the nature of hip-hop.

  

  Nas
  • Nature
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• What we should notice is that studies show that fathers' presence in their children's lives has a marked effect on how well their kids do later in life, so why aren't we asking how we can better liberate men from the workplace to be home with their kids more often?

  

  Naomi Wolf
  • Life
  • Men
  • Children

• I'm actually developing a project so that I can have a lead.

  

  Rachel True
  • I Can
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  • Project

• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  

  Rachel Cusk
  • Good
  • Hope
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• It was kind of boring for me to have to eat. I would know that I had to, and I would.

  

  Kate Moss
  • Know
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• Conversion is not my intention. Changing religion is not easy. You may develop some kind of confusion or difficulties.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • May
  • Kind
  • Religion

• I love to vacuum. There's just something so satisfying about hearing detritus sucked up into a vacuum. Sand makes such a great sound when being vacuumed off a hardwood floor.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Great
  • Sound
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• Only get rid altogether of your nonsensical trash about the beautiful, which I nor anybody else, nor yourself to boot, could ever understand,-only free yourself of that, and your success in life is as sure as daylight.

  

  Nathaniel Hawthorne
  • Life
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• When commerce with Moslems flourished, zeal for their massacre declined.

  

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• When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possible, but preferably with some visibility so people know management means business.

  

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• It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable.

  

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• I'm the only person in the world that, when he holds down two jobs, gets criticized for it; everyone else gets a pat on the back and say, 'What an entrepreneuring, hardworking person,' but apparently that doesn't apply to me.

  

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  • World

• I still got a lot to learn about fashion. I'm somebody who experiments, somebody who's finding their way. I'm young, and I don't really know if there's any guide to style in what's right and what's wrong. I just dress as an extension of how I'm feeling. If I feel crazy, then I'm gonna rock something crazy.

  

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• I am in favour of capital punishment if the execution of the sentence is immediate. The purpose of the death penalty is to send out a message to society.

  

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  • Death
  • Society
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• I told the guys that something good would come of this. We worked our butts off.

  

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  • Good
  • Guys
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• Everyone rushes his life on, and suffers from a yearning for the future and a boredom with the present. But that man who devotes every hour to his own needs, who plans every day as if it were his last, neither longs for nor fears tomorrow.

  

  Seneca the Younger
  • Men
  • Suffering
  • Hours